Julia Seymour | October 21, 2020
Col. Muammar Gaddafi was a brutal dictator, but on The CW show Devils his history is reinvented. It suggests he may not have been the one deciding to commit mass murder, and that bankers were calling the shots instead. The third episode of Devils mirrors reality by showing news reports of a mass grave in Tripoli, Libya and weaves it into a fictional, financial conspiracy plot. Devils points the…
Julia Seymour | October 7, 2020
Bankers are literally the devil in The CW’s new series Devils which premiered Oct. 7. The show has been described as a thriller and murder mystery in which traders discover a worldwide financial conspiracy. Devils is set amid the world of high finance circa 2011, at fictional London investment bank NYL — helmed by American CEO Dominic Morgan (Patrick Dempsey). McDreamy no more, it’s clear…
Julia Seymour | August 23, 2020
Yellowstone’s third season went out with a bang. Literally. Someone attempted or successfully murdered members of the Dutton family in the final episode. A mail bomb arrived and exploded on Beth in her former office. Kayce was attacked by gunfire in his office and someone shot John multiple times as he helped a tourist with a flat tire. The cliffhanger finale left their survival unknown although…
Julia Seymour | August 17, 2020
The Duttons took murderous revenge this week on Yellowstone against men paid to “stir up trouble” that could be used to sue the family. It was finally revealed that Market Equities hedge funder Roarke Morris paid Wade and Clint Morrow to provoke the Duttons into doing something criminal.  Story on Newsbusters
Julia Seymour | August 10, 2020
Monica Dutton bravely helped discover a rapist and murderer of Native American women in this week’s Yellowstone. The unnamed man who had been preying on reservation women turned out to be a white, natural gas worker who would offer them a ride when their cars broke down.  Making white people and energy companies look evil is a two-fer in the liberal Hollywood playbook. But it was impossible to…
Julia Seymour | July 19, 2020
Why does Beth Dutton hate her brother Jamie? The horrific answer to this longstanding question has finally been answered for Yellowstone viewers. When Beth was a teen, Jamie knowingly took her to get an abortion at a clinic that forcibly sterilized women without their consent
Julia Seymour | July 12, 2020
The show Yellowstone is, in many ways, about the clashes between people who want very different futures. John Dutton (Kevin Costner) always fights to protect his ranch to keep it for future generations of his family. Meanwhile tribal chairman Thomas Rainwater’s (Gil Birmingham) vision of the future is a return to the past.   Rainwater is not shy about sharing his vision of a valley denuded of…
Julia Seymour | July 6, 2020
Market Equities is the development company facing off against the Dutton ranch family on Paramount’s Yellowstone this season. In the third episode, “An Acceptable Surrender” that aired July 5, the company’s plans to build an airport, ski resort and city akin to Jackson Hole, Wyoming became clear. Market Equities attorney Ellis Steel meets with Montana Governor Lynelle Perry to pitch the project…
Julia Seymour | June 28, 2020
Trouble is headed the Duttons’ way again on Yellowstone. In the premiere, John Dutton resigned as livestock commissioner and appointed his son Jamie. This week in the episode “Freight Trains and Monsters” Jamie stepped into his father’s shoes and then promptly into a mess sure to haunt himself and the family. Story on Newsbusters
Julia Seymour | June 22, 2020
After a bloody second season, Paramount’s Yellowstone began its third in remarkable peace.  Last season ended in a deadly shootout between the Dutton family and its allies and white supremacists militia members who were hired to kidnap and traumatize John Dutton’s only grandson, Tate. Season three began with the family picking up all the pieces all while introducing new enemies and indicating…